The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 23, 1998 Page: 1 of 12
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weapons
victim * well as police investi-
gators who prepared that case for
trial in 1991. A jury acquitted
Tuesday the Bastrop City
Council will debate how to pay
for construction of a new police
building and reworking three
major cross-town streets over the
next five to seven years. The cost
of both projects is expected to
top S3 million.
City Manager Randall Holly
is prepared to recommend asking
voters to approve a $2 million
bond issue to finance the police
building on a four-acre site the
city owns on Hospital Drive off
Loop 150 West.
Previously the council has
expressed willingness to ask vot-
ers for bond approval. At the
same tune council members have
worried out loud about finding
ways to lower the amount of debt
to be secured by higher property
Council Me mi er Mark Bunte.
who holds seniority on the coun-
for police building
DNA linked Reed to the
attack, according to former
police detective Steven Thayer.
The vicrim said she did not know
house a variety of activity rooms.
Among the facilities included
will be a basketball court, a rac-
quetball court, an exercise room
and a weight room. The site will
also be available for use at spe-
cial events, such as wedding
receptions or basketball tourna-
ments
The project is expected to cost
over SI million. About half of
the funding is being supplied by
a grant from the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department. The rest
will be raised through donations.
woman told the Bastrop jury that
she had an on- and ofif-again
relationship with Reed between
1988 and 1991, including the
birth of two children. She
described their relationship as
physically abusive, and recalled
a night after she had broken up
with him in 1991 when he came
into her bouse and raped her.
cil and is beginning his 11th year,
was chosen to fill the rank.
In other city news, workers
have put up the iron for the new
recreation center and ate work-
ing on the masonry blocks inside
the structure.
City Manager Bob Miller said
things are running smoothly on
the project. Construction is
taxes.
Financing the street and curb
work may be more complicated.
When voters approved a $3.7
million bond issue to improve
dramage in the central city and to
rebuilt Pecan and Main Street
with associated utility upgrades,
the council in effect promised to
rebuild Cedar. Farm and Pine
Street over seven years using the
city’s work force and non-bond
funds. But the council never
identified a source of money to
pay for the work.
Holly wants the council to
make that decision soon.
Now the city manager is set to
recommend tapping a variety of
resources for the street work.
The City of Smithville on
Wednesday appointed Mike
Kahanek to fill its lone empty
council sear The post was
opened when former council
member Renee Blaschke was
sworn in as mayor earlier this
month. Kahanek will fill the
remaining one year of Blaschke's
month and replaced 10-year vet-
eran Vernon Richards, who did
not seek re-election.
Another new face to the coun-
cil was added on March II, when
Marshall Johnson was sworn in
to the Place 5 seat.
Johnson took over the seat
formerly held by Don Fries.
With Blaschke's moving into
the mayoral seat, the position of
Mayor Pro-Tern was also
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Federal drug
raid yields
cash
A year-long investigation into
Bastrop's drug market came to a
bead Thursday when two federal
search warrants led to the arrest
of two suspects.
Victor Lamont Moore. 27. and
Bobby Lynn Alsup Jr.. 19. both
of County Road 45 just north of
Bastrop, were taken in after offi-
cials searched their residences
and found six ounces of crack
and powder cocaine, over
$10,000 cash and several
weapons, including a SKS
assault nfle loaded with a 30-
round magazine, said Chief of
Police Bill Anderson.
Both suspects are now facing
federal charges of possession of a
controlled substance
The search was executed at
about 9 a.m. by officials from the
Bastrop Police Department.
Bastrop County ShenfFs Office.
Federal Drug Enforcement
Agency, Capital Arm Narcoqcs
Task Force and a SWAT team
from the Round Rock Police
Department.
The investigation by the
Sheriff's Office began in March
of last year, when a similar raid
of a storage shed on the same
property that was searched
Thursday resulted in the seizure
of more than $100,000 worth of
property. $45,000 cash, between
50-60 guns and large bags of
marijuana and cocaine Most of
the property has been traced to
area burglaries.
No arrests were made after
last year's raid, but Sheriff
Richard Hernandez said Moore
has been a suspect from the
beginning.
'The information that we
received was that everything
belonged to Victor Moore.”
Hernandez said.
Similarly. Moore has been the
target of a Bastrop Police investi-
gation since he was arrested on
drug possession charges last
December.
In that case. Moore was
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McAuley, Davis. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 23, 1998, newspaper, May 23, 1998; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178221/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.